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Opened book in Like New condition. Limited edition of 800 copies.///N° 3181. edition 2021ISBN: 978-3-907236-18-5Language: German EnglishHardcover, 268 pages, 164 color images26.6 × 18.5 cm///In 1889, Georg August Zenker, a gardener and botanist from Leipzig, took charge of the Jaunde (present-day Yaoundé) research station in the German colony of Kamerun. After six years tenure, Zenker was summarily relieved of his duties. He was said to be leading a polygamous life at the station with several African women, some of whom had borne him children. Zenker left the country, only to return soon afterwards as a private citizen. He settled with his family (a woman from Dahomé and five children) in Bipindi, deep in the Kamerun jungle, where he built Bipindihof, a German colonial-style house and vast cocoa, rubber and banana plantations. The mainstay of his livelihood, however, consisted in collecting copious botanical and zoological specimens as well as ethnographic objects for German museums. Zenker s…
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Yana Wernicke & Jonas Feige: Zenker
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